The sub-series consists of staff directories, staff memos, staff meeting agendas, minutes and notes, principal’s reports, programmes, correspondence, schedules, calendars of events, awards lists, lecture notes, salary schedules, newspaper articles, and enrollment information.
This sub-series contains records of Sisters who worked at the academy. This includes teacher information cards, teaching certifications, biographies, schedules, correspondence, and agreements.
This sub-series includes photographs depicting Sisters during the formation process and encouraging other women to join the Congregation at vocational fairs and events. Sisters at the postulant, novice and other levels of formation are portrayed.
This sub-series contains newspaper clippings about the formation and vocation of the Sisters. The newspaper clippings include a personal account of one Sister’s journey from The Boston Globe as well as clippings about becoming a Sister, news about the vocational and community work of the Sisters, and the history of Sisters of St. Joseph in London in The Canadian Register.
This sub-series contains preparatory notes and recommendations for study guides to be used during a vow renewal event. Two deeper reflection texts are also included, one prepared by Father Marius Nepper, S.J. that discusses the life of Father Medaille, the other by Père Wolff, S.J. which provides extracts from “Etude Sur la Lettre Eucharistique.”
This sub-series contains correspondence relating to the planning and organizing of the summer vow renewal program of 1981. Biographies of presenters, bulletin announcements, lists of attendees, travel dates, annotated agendas, meeting minutes, progress updates from the planning committee, and the application for vow renewal are also included.
This subseries contains photographs of the Mount Hope Motherhouse and surrounding landscape, taken at some time after the 1877 renovations. There is a scrapbook, titled “Ancient Collection from Mount Hope,” which contains newspaper clippings related to Bishop Fallon of London, St. Peter’s Seminary, the London Schools of Catechetic, Henry Edward Dormer, Bishop-Elect Dennis O’Connor, Father Frank Forster, the Canonization of Jesuit Martyrs, and Bishop Alexander MacDonnell. Bishop Fallon of London convalesced at Mount Hope. Three newspaper articles from 1961, 1962, and 1966 reference the Sisters of St. Joseph in London.
The 1960 newsletter was a “trial run” of a community effort to provide news to the Sisters throughout the diocese. The newsletter successfully wove together important topics and issues for the Sisters, and was subsequently printed every two months. Healthcare, missions, ministries and important Motherhouse events, such as jubilees, are discussed in each issue. A list of new postulants is provided periodically. Community building projects, such as the Hamilton and Kitchener hospital expansions are documented.
The Bell Tower is a monthly newsletter by the Sisters of St. Joseph and the Hamilton Diocese that offers Chapter information, Sister profiles, and information about important anniversaries.
The subseries consists of a list of representatives present at a meeting of the London Diocese Sisters’ Council, memberships lists of 1972-1982, and correspondence concerning council members from 1969-1973. It also consists of the “Directory of Communities of Religious Women of the Diocese of London” produced by the Sisters’ Council in 1975. There are nomination forms for the executive positions of the Sisters’ Council and results from the 1972 nominations. There is also a list of members eligible for election to the Executive Committee and of new members accepting their position on the Council.